Thank you 🙏🏽 for sharing. Been thinking of planting fruits 🍎 trees 🌳 and also I think this applies to all young trees really and I do have 3 of those I can apply this technique to them. Thanks again! Very interesting and informative short video!
Any advice on watering the cosmic crisp tree? Im on year 2 and still struggle to figure out a watering schedule. Using those 15 gallon slow release watering doughnuts twice a week.
Watering really depends on your area, and the best advice I can think of is to watch other apple and fruit trees in your area for what is being done. As the tree gets established in the first few years, it will naturally grow roots to sustain itself, but it will thrive with periodic watering and mulch. I am in the Seattle suburbs, and my tree is in my lawn area, so it gets the sprinkler periodically (I like my grass green), but I also mulch the area around my tree and keep it free from weeds. With a layer of mulch, it probably would do great with a weekly watering. Where are you at and what are the conditions like?
@@backyardadventureswithandy I'm out on the Olympic peninsula near port Townsend, Ive got 2 cosmic crisp trees that are around 4 years and first time producing, not many apples only about a half dozen per tree, and suggestions for them, the trees themselves are growing large.
@@ryaniw4297 My trees are a similar age as your trees, and last year I had one bud that grew an apple (it later fell off), this year I had about 25-35 buds that had fruit (lots of flowers, though), and I thinned it down to 15ish as my branches are still smaller for weight issues in the Fall. They are growing nicely. I've got a couple other varieties nearby, so I think my pollination piece is good. These do seem to be a late, late flowering tree. I am working towards tree health and shape, but as for you, I would continue to shape with a summer and winter pruning. I'll try to do another update video this summer. As for getting more fruiting buds, I feel like the summer pruning helps with that, where you encourage lateral growth.
You can graft any apple onto an apple tree of any kind. So, I have a Cosmic Crisp Tree with a Honeycrisp graft. Anything on that future branch will be Honeycrisp. If I graft on an already grafted apple, than that new graft will continue to be the new variety for anything that grows past that.
The grafts will grow for a few years, like a young apple tree. I am now two years into the first grafts on this tree, and I may get a couple flowers this next spring, but I think I am still two years away from getting several fruiting buds that I'll leave, and likely 3 years from lots of fruit. I'll try to make an update video. I have pruned my graft back to shape the tree for long-term health, so I am working on a strengthened branch too.
I think I sharpened the beveled edge, but are you seeing something different? Sharpening pruners generally involved running the sharpening tool away from the handles along the same angle as the bevel, right?
Thank you 🙏🏽 for sharing. Been thinking of planting fruits 🍎 trees 🌳 and also I think this applies to all young trees really and I do have 3 of those I can apply this technique to them. Thanks again! Very interesting and informative short video!
Just remember that winter pruning stimulates lots if growth, whereas summer pruning promotes slower growth and some budding. Thanks for watching.
Great pruning tips!
Thanks, and as soon as I get a dry day, I'm hoping to do a tree on winter spraying and grafting. Enjoy!
Any advice on watering the cosmic crisp tree? Im on year 2 and still struggle to figure out a watering schedule. Using those 15 gallon slow release watering doughnuts twice a week.
Watering really depends on your area, and the best advice I can think of is to watch other apple and fruit trees in your area for what is being done. As the tree gets established in the first few years, it will naturally grow roots to sustain itself, but it will thrive with periodic watering and mulch. I am in the Seattle suburbs, and my tree is in my lawn area, so it gets the sprinkler periodically (I like my grass green), but I also mulch the area around my tree and keep it free from weeds. With a layer of mulch, it probably would do great with a weekly watering. Where are you at and what are the conditions like?
@@backyardadventureswithandy I'm out on the Olympic peninsula near port Townsend, Ive got 2 cosmic crisp trees that are around 4 years and first time producing, not many apples only about a half dozen per tree, and suggestions for them, the trees themselves are growing large.
@@ryaniw4297 My trees are a similar age as your trees, and last year I had one bud that grew an apple (it later fell off), this year I had about 25-35 buds that had fruit (lots of flowers, though), and I thinned it down to 15ish as my branches are still smaller for weight issues in the Fall. They are growing nicely. I've got a couple other varieties nearby, so I think my pollination piece is good. These do seem to be a late, late flowering tree. I am working towards tree health and shape, but as for you, I would continue to shape with a summer and winter pruning. I'll try to do another update video this summer. As for getting more fruiting buds, I feel like the summer pruning helps with that, where you encourage lateral growth.
@@backyardadventureswithandy would love to learn about summer pruning since I thought there was only winter pruning.
Also do you know what rootstock your tree is on?
I don't have the rootstock for this tree. I'll dig in my files and see if the tag is still around, but I don't think it had any extra info.
Can you graft the honey crisp
Cuttings back onto the tree?
You can graft any apple onto an apple tree of any kind. So, I have a Cosmic Crisp Tree with a Honeycrisp graft. Anything on that future branch will be Honeycrisp. If I graft on an already grafted apple, than that new graft will continue to be the new variety for anything that grows past that.
When do grafts usually begin to fruit? And What is it dependent on?
The grafts will grow for a few years, like a young apple tree. I am now two years into the first grafts on this tree, and I may get a couple flowers this next spring, but I think I am still two years away from getting several fruiting buds that I'll leave, and likely 3 years from lots of fruit. I'll try to make an update video. I have pruned my graft back to shape the tree for long-term health, so I am working on a strengthened branch too.
You are sharpening the wrong side of the blade on that pruners by the way
I think I sharpened the beveled edge, but are you seeing something different? Sharpening pruners generally involved running the sharpening tool away from the handles along the same angle as the bevel, right?
Yep, i saw that and came to the comment section to address that, but you already did.